Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769 – 25 August 1839)data.bnf.ft. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
/ref> was a French classical violinist. He was born in Paris about 1769, and was a pupil of Isidore Bertheaume. After several years' obligatory service in the army, he soon became well-known on his return. On the death of

Pierre Gaviniès Pierre Gaviniès (11 May 1728 – 8 September 1800) was a French violinist, pedagogue and composer. Life Born in Bordeaux as the son of a luthier, Gaviniès was taken to Paris by his father in 1734. At age 13, he made his debut at the Concert Spi ...

in 1800 he was appointed professor of the violin at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

. Soon afterwards he succeeded Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni as ''chef d'orchestre'' at the

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, holding the post until 1829, when he retired from public life. He died in Paris in 1839. He published three Concertos for the Violin, five books of Violin-Duos, and a Sonata for Piano and Violin.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grasset, Jean-Jacques 1760s births 1839 deaths Musicians from Paris French male classical violinists 19th-century French violinists 19th-century French male musicians Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 18th-century French violinists 18th-century French male musicians